Ed Markey

This morning, I reintroduced my Military Savings Act

We have a responsibility to put in place the kinds of programs that help to ensure that that security is there

I think it might be advisable for us to work with them so that we might be able to give them a good recommendation as to what the strength should be, given, kind of, the predictable nature of intensifying of storms.

I think we should begin to think about whether or not we should be putting nuclear power plants, you know, with United States cooperation, in countries like Vietnam, knowing that, without proper protection, there could be catastrophic…

So, in the wake of the disaster, there is also a risk of secondary disasters--unsanitary drinking water, rapidly spreading virus.

At a time like this, we need to be focused on helping the survivors.

I think that we all have to come together in a way that deals with the national security consequences of climate change.

Do you think, after Hurricane Sandy and after this situation, that we should begin to reevaluate what it is that we should be expecting, in terms of storm surges?

Today I am introducing the Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act. For more than a century, America's innovation community has been the foundation of our high-tech economy and generated broad-based growth to support a…

I wish to begin by thanking Chairman Harkin, Ranking Member Alexander, Senators Franken and Roberts, and all of their staffs for their tremendous leadership on this bill. This bill was also developed in concert with our counterparts in the…

We will continue to work with Armenia on its Euro-Atlantic integration to preserve the progress made in the Eastern Partnership over the past 3½ years.

Why do you not talk a little bit about what innovation means and how a little bit of governmental support... means in terms of your investment?

This year, 12,000 new megawatts of wind, 3,000 new megawatts of solar.

We are going to lose to Germany. We are going to lose to China. They have a business plan in China.

It is happening. And it is still not understood. Conventional wisdom is still, oh, that is kind of exotic.

Where did the fracking technology come from? DOE investment. Where did the Internet come from? Federal investment in DARPANET.

Let's talk about wind power. Let's talk about what you are doing at Cape Wind.

I praise your administration because you have been at the cutting edge of putting together these kinds of consortia.

We have to actually aspire to a day where Thomas Edison could not recognize his electricity grid.

Energy gives us kind of a similar kind of opportunity because we know that by the end of the 21st century, there is going to be a huge revolution in the kinds of energy that we use.

We passed three bills that ultimately led to $1 trillion worth of private sector investment that created Google, eBay, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, and the first generation and now Twitter and Facebook in the second generation, just unleashed it…

It needs some governmental help in terms of create the precedent that then will create tens of thousands more jobs all across our country.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

The same wind that drove the pilgrims to our shores in Massachusetts is the same wind that we can now capture to innovate in the wind area.

The incumbent industries are averse to investments in new technologies, competing technologies.